large bt i.q. communities which have really been fighting to be seen as equal citizens for years now but of course we also have the rural parts of the country which are still very traditional very conservative and where same sex intimacy is seen as something an african many people there don't question a lot of which is basically a left over from the colonial era from the colonial rule rather than a truly african law and now we have these judges deciding whether or not to decriminalize same sex relations where could this possibly go melanie i mean do we have an indication as to how they might rule. anything could happen really the chances are fifty fifty but the activists i've spoken to are hopeful their course the optimistic because kenya has set precedents in the past for example last year a court ruled that fullest anal examinations which were used to determine whether